I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“You did as one who, walking by night, Carries the light behind him, where it does him no good, But is of… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli occhi ci… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
